YOU CAN'T BEAT S.E. ASIA

I fell in love with the dive boat, La Galigo and booked a six day Komodo Island scuba diving trip in early July. Then went to Ubud to see a bit more of Bali. Decided to visit Myanmar, Brunei, and make a return trip to Sipadan. It was monsoon season in Myanmar, so there was no diving; storms blow up suddenly and the sea is too rough. The dive season doesn't start till November. I made the best of it and had a wonderful land trip in Myanmar, touring Rangoon, Mandalay, Lake Inle, and Bagan.Then I decided I hadn't gotten to do enough diving so I booked a side trip to East Timor. I spent four wondrful days relaxing in Bangkok before returning to Seattle. The trip took two months.

I am a very senior scuba diver and I am finishing up a five month scuba diving trip in SE Asia. I just finished my one hundredth dive since the start of the trip in April. I was certified in 1986 but didn't dive regularly until after my last child was born, when I was forty (I have seven). This is not my first trip to Asia; I dove in Palawan - Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia, and have taken dive trips to Cozumel, Canada, Malta, Bonaire, Honduras and Bahama, and have done dives in the Black Sea - Bulgaria, and Epcot Center in Florida. I tell people we dive where ever there is a puddle.... full info